deNoo's blog

Integrating Google tasks with your ubuntu desktop

Job — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:05:02 +0000

While I was looking for a desktop integration for google chrome i found the following to articles:

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/36842.aspx which describes how to use alltray and prism to integrate google tasks with you gnome panel.

and

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-access-your-google-tasks/ which describe how to use chrome’s feature to create a desktop shortcut to a web-application.

if you combine them both u can use [...]

Loading environment specific spring configurations.

Job — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:02:58 +0000

At my work we try to deploy locally on tomcat or glassfish and in production (and the other test environments) on webspere. For this we often need to overwrite a spring bean to implement it differently. For example we use jdni to loopup the datasource in the websphere environments, but we prefer to use a [...]

Mirroring eclipse update sites

Job — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:12:04 +0000

When you have resticted internet access at work, dealing with eclipse plugins can be a pain. A lot of plugins don’t make local-update archives anymore, so you have to look for other solutions. I had a look at epmt(http://code.google.com/p/epmt/) which is a nice, but not very stable application to mirror eclipse update sites. Unfortunately it [...]

Generated source annotation

Job — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:55:21 +0000

In my last 2 projects i generated some source code with jaxb. I used the maven plugin for jaxb and the source code was generated under src/main/generated-sources. This all worked quite well till i started to use some quality assurence plugins within maven. To exclude the generated sources i had to do quite some [...]

@Transactional and performance issues

Job — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:15:47 +0000

Yesterday i was profiling an application to test out the yourkit profiler. After firing a request on certain pages within the application i noticed that that there were 36 calls to get a connection from the datasource.

This asstonished me because a lot of those calls where made from methods where a caching mechanism was in place. [...]

JSF: MultipleField Validations

Job — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:26:33 +0000

At work we decided that we wanted all our validations on a page to happen within the validation phase of JSF.

On trying this we got a lot of trouble from fields that had such a relation to other fields that you could only validate them as a whole.

The problem here is that in JSF [...]

Finally JSF 1.2 and Facelets on Websphere 6.1.

Job — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:30:52 +0000

Well today I re-tried to get JSF 1.2 and facelets to work on websphere 6.1 and after some struggling I finally got it to work.

The things I mentioned in my last post where instability and some problems with validators with arguments. The first part must have been a class-loader problem, or maybe a problem [...]

JSF 1.2, facelets and webspere: Can’t get it to work

Job — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:38:34 +0000

I finally got it to work see the next post.

Spent the last couple of days trying to get JSF 1.2 running on a websphere 6.1 installation with no luck so far.

We really need this because we have a lot of trouble with the default jsf bundled with websphere (JSF 1.1_02). Especially the datatable component in [...]